Marı́a José Contreras
Biographic Data
| ID | 5854211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marı́a José Contreras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marı́a José |
| FAMILY NAME | Contreras |
| SIGNATURE | CONTRERAS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6302-5238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inducing strategies to solve a mental rotation task is possible: Evidence from a sex-related eye-tracking analysis
The study of spatial skills is gaining importance due to their relevance in everyday activities and their critical role in developing competencies across various academic disciplines. The main goal of this study was to explore whether mental rotation strategies, such as the so-called holistic -rotating an entire object- and piecemeal -rotating individual parts of the object- approaches, can be induced, and whether sex differences emerge during th…
Getting it right takes time: Response time and performance in secondary school students
The relation between response time and performance in cognitive tasks is increasingly evident. In the present study, we analyzed the effect of participants' spontaneous speed when responding to a mental rotation task. We carried out a data reanalysis from a previous study where a training of 3 practice sessions of 100 trials each was applied. The procedure was applied to a sample of 21 high school students (11 boys, 10 girls). The relation betwee…
Eficacia del entrenamiento espacial en primaria y secundaria: Todos aprenden
El procesamiento visoespacial es clave para lograr, entre otros, un rendimiento óptimo en actividades académicas. En el ámbito de la cognición espacial se ha encontrado que la práctica con tareas espaciales puede reducir la brecha de género en este tipo de razonamiento. Sin embargo, no siempre un aumento de las puntuaciones espaciales llega a compensar las diferencias que existen entre participantes con mayores y menores habilidades espaciales. D…
Monitoring the Own Spatial Thinking in Second Grade of Primary Education in a Spanish School: Preliminary Study Analyzing Gender Differences
Previous studies on metacognitive performance have explored children’s abilities during primary school (7–11 years) in abstract and mathematical reasoning tasks. However, there have been no studies evaluating the metamemory processes with spatial tasks in primary school children, and even more generally, only a few studies have explored spatial metacognition in adults. Taking as a preliminary study a Spanish school, the present work explores the …
Pajarito nuevo la lleva. Teatro e memória: Estratégias de representação e elaboração cênica da memória traumática infantil
O presente artigo relata uma pesquisa cênica realizada a partir de testemunhos coletados entre aqueles que eram crianças na época do Golpe de Estado (Chile - 1973) e no período de protestos dos anos 1980. Os objetivos do projeto foram resgatar uma memória que não foi considerada oficialmente como parte do projeto de reconciliação e reconstrução nacional, e revisar suas possibilidades de tradução performática para promover, assim, a elaboração col…
Performance as a Function of Ability, Resources Invested, and Strategy Used
Computerized tasks allow a more fine-grained analysis of the strategy deployed in a task designed to map a specific ability than the usual assessment on the basis of only the level of performance. Manipulations expected to impair performance sometimes do not have that effect, probably because the level of performance alone can confound the assessment of the ability level if researchers ignore the strategy used. In a study with 1,872 participants,…
Is Static Spatial Performance Distinguishable From Dynamic Spatial Performance? A Latent-Variable Analysis
There is disagreement among researchers about the distinction between dynamic and static spatial performance. Given that dynamic spatial performance is supposed to be important for some occupations, such as air traffic control (ATC), it is germane to have evidence about the likelihood of that distinction. In the present study, a battery of printed static spatial and reasoning tests were applied to 480 applicants for an ATC training course. Two dy…
Performance as a Function of Ability, Resources Invested, and Strategy Used
Computerized tasks allow a more fine-grained analysis of the strategy deployed in a task designed to map a specific ability than the usual assessment on the basis of only the level of performance. Manipulations expected to impair performance sometimes do not have that effect, probably because the level of performance alone can confound the assessment of the ability level if researchers ignore the strategy used. In a study with 1,872 participants,…
Is Static Spatial Performance Distinguishable From Dynamic Spatial Performance? A Latent-Variable Analysis
There is disagreement among researchers about the distinction between dynamic and static spatial performance. Given that dynamic spatial performance is supposed to be important for some occupations, such as air traffic control (ATC), it is germane to have evidence about the likelihood of that distinction. In the present study, a battery of printed static spatial and reasoning tests were applied to 480 applicants for an ATC training course. Two dy…
Performance as a Function of Ability, Resources Invested, and Strategy Used
Computerized tasks allow a more fine-grained analysis of the strategy deployed in a task designed to map a specific ability than the usual assessment on the basis of only the level of performance. Manipulations expected to impair performance sometimes do not have that effect, probably because the level of performance alone can confound the assessment of the ability level if researchers ignore the strategy used. In a study with 1,872 participants,…
Pajarito nuevo la lleva. Teatro e memória: Estratégias de representação e elaboração cênica da memória traumática infantil
O presente artigo relata uma pesquisa cênica realizada a partir de testemunhos coletados entre aqueles que eram crianças na época do Golpe de Estado (Chile - 1973) e no período de protestos dos anos 1980. Os objetivos do projeto foram resgatar uma memória que não foi considerada oficialmente como parte do projeto de reconciliação e reconstrução nacional, e revisar suas possibilidades de tradução performática para promover, assim, a elaboração col…
Monitoring the Own Spatial Thinking in Second Grade of Primary Education in a Spanish School: Preliminary Study Analyzing Gender Differences
Previous studies on metacognitive performance have explored children’s abilities during primary school (7–11 years) in abstract and mathematical reasoning tasks. However, there have been no studies evaluating the metamemory processes with spatial tasks in primary school children, and even more generally, only a few studies have explored spatial metacognition in adults. Taking as a preliminary study a Spanish school, the present work explores the …
Eficacia del entrenamiento espacial en primaria y secundaria: Todos aprenden
El procesamiento visoespacial es clave para lograr, entre otros, un rendimiento óptimo en actividades académicas. En el ámbito de la cognición espacial se ha encontrado que la práctica con tareas espaciales puede reducir la brecha de género en este tipo de razonamiento. Sin embargo, no siempre un aumento de las puntuaciones espaciales llega a compensar las diferencias que existen entre participantes con mayores y menores habilidades espaciales. D…
Getting it right takes time: Response time and performance in secondary school students
The relation between response time and performance in cognitive tasks is increasingly evident. In the present study, we analyzed the effect of participants' spontaneous speed when responding to a mental rotation task. We carried out a data reanalysis from a previous study where a training of 3 practice sessions of 100 trials each was applied. The procedure was applied to a sample of 21 high school students (11 boys, 10 girls). The relation betwee…
Inducing strategies to solve a mental rotation task is possible: Evidence from a sex-related eye-tracking analysis
The study of spatial skills is gaining importance due to their relevance in everyday activities and their critical role in developing competencies across various academic disciplines. The main goal of this study was to explore whether mental rotation strategies, such as the so-called holistic -rotating an entire object- and piecemeal -rotating individual parts of the object- approaches, can be induced, and whether sex differences emerge during th…
Spatial Cognition and Navigation (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Spatial Ability (4 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Task (project management (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)